About

Fergus McNeill is Professor of Criminology & Social Work at the University of Glasgow. Prior to becoming an academic in 1998, Fergus worked for a number of years in residential drug rehabilitation and as a criminal justice social worker. His research interests and publications have addressed a range of criminal justice issues including sentencing, community sanctions, ex-offender reintegration and youth justice. His previous books include 'Reducing Reoffending: Social Work and Community Justice in Scotland' (with Bill Whyte, published by Willan, 2007) and ‘Youth Offending and Youth Justice’ (with Monica Barry, published by Jessica Kingsley, 2009). He is currently co-editing (with Peter Raynor and Chris Trotter) a major international collection on ‘Offender Supervision: New Directions in Theory, Research and Practice’ which is due for publication by Willan in late 2010.

Subjects

• Criminal Justice Process and Institutions

Publications

	Travelling Hopefully: Desistance Research and Probation Practice(Book Chapter)
	Travelling hopefully: desistance theory and probation practice(Book Chapter)
	Social Work in Criminal Justice(Book Chapter)
	Culture, Change and Community Justice(Research Report)
	Changing Lives? Desistance Research and Offender Management(Research Report)
	Towards Effective Practice in Offender Supervision(Research Report)
	Choice vs. Crisis: How Scotland could transform thinking about prisons and punishment (Briefing Paper)
	Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission 10th Anniversary Research(Research Report)
	What Works and What's Right(Journal Article)
	Youth Offending and Youth Justice (Book)
	Risk, responsibility and reconfiguration(Journal Article)
	Youth Offending and Youth Justice(Briefing Paper)
	Street-Level Bureaucracy, Interprofessional Relations, and Coping Mechanisms: A Study of Criminal Justice Social Workers in the Sentencing Process (Journal Article)
	Risk, responsibility and reconfiguration: Penal adaptation and misadaptation(Journal Article)
	Shadow Writing and Participant Observation: A Study of Criminal Justice Social Work Around Sentencing(Journal Article)
	Shadow writing and participant observation: A study of criminal justice social work around sentencing’(Journal Article)
	Consumer Society, Commodification and Offender Management (Journal Article)
	Reducing Reoffending: Social Work and Community Justice in Scotland (Book)
	Desistance-Focussed Approaches (Book Chapter)
	Developments in Probation in Scotland (Book Chapter)
	Probation in Scotland: Past, Present and Future (Book Chapter)
	Giving Up and Giving Back: Desistance, Generativity and Social Work with Offenders (Book Chapter)
	Scotland: criminal justice social work (Book Chapter)
	Desistance (Book Chapter)
	Desistance (Book Chapter)
	Giving Up Crime: Directions for Policy (Policy Report)
	Research and Practice in Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Children and Young People Engaging in Offending Behaviour(Research Report)
	The End of an Era? Youth Justice in Scotland (Book Chapter)
	Community Supervision: Context and Relationships Matter (Book Chapter)
	A New Paradigm for Social Work with Offenders? (Journal Article)
	The Desistance Paradigm for Offender Management (Bulletin)
	A desistance paradigm for offender management(Journal Article)
	Reducing reoffending: lessons from psychotherapy and counselling(Journal Article)

Projects

• Compliance with Community Penalties
• Probation Histories
• Social Enquiry and Sentencing in the Sheriff Courts
• Cultural Change in Community Justice
• Desistance and Reducing Reoffending
• European Society of Criminology Working Group on Community Sanctions
• Collaboration of Researchers for the Effective Development of Offender Supervision (CREDOS)
• Scottish Prisons Commission Report
• Evaluation of the Women in Focus Programme
• Incarceration, social control and human rights.